Improvement in button-fasteners



B. F. LARRA BEE.

Button Fasteners. No.152,l28. Patentedlunemnam.

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BENJAMIN F. LARRABEE, OF LYNN, ASSIGNOE TO CHARLES M. ROVLEY, TRUSTEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTON-FASTENERS.

Specification forming pari oi' Ltttexs Patent No. 152,128, dated June 1G, 1874; application lled April 13, 1874. y

To all rwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. LARRA- BEE, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Button-Fastener; and I do hereby declare that the following, taken in connection with the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification, is a description of my invention suicient to enable those skilled in the art to practice it.

1n the drawings, Figure 1 illustrates a but ton applied to cloth or other material by means of my improved fastener; Fig. 2, the upper side of the same, with the body of the button removed from its shank or eye; Fig. 3, the under side of the material, and ofthe fastener applied thereto; and Fig. 4, a perspectiveof A the fastener and button ready to be applied to lthe material.

The main piece a. of the fastener is a small metal plate, circular or otherwise, having several, say, four prongs, b b, designed to be passed through the leather or other material, and clinched onits opposite side. In the center of this plate is an opening, 011e or lnore, to receive a metal loop-piece, c, and Whose prongs are also intended to pass through the material, and to be clinched on its opposite side, as

shown, this loop-piece being previously, however, passed through the eye e of a button, d,

as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 4. When the parts are connected, as shown in Fig. 4, and the several prongs or tips b c are passed through the leather or other material f, the prongs are then clinched upon the under side of the material, as seen in section in Fig. 1, and in plan in Fig. 3. The points or prongs of the plate are, preferably, made long enough kto pass through the eye of the button, and through the plate, and both to be clinched to the material, as shown and described.

Executed this 6th day of March, A. D. 1874.

B. F. LARRABEE..

XVitnesses:

M. W. FROTHINGHAM, C. WARREN BROWN. 

